OPHTALMOLOGIE. — FLORIO (Pietro)

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OPHTALMOLOGIE. — FLORIO (Pietro)
Descrizione istorica teorica e pratica dell' ottalmia purolenta osservata dal 1835 al 1839 nell' opsedale militare di Pietroburgo. Naples, Tipografia del Filiatre-Sebezio, 1842. In-8, plum half-basin, smooth back decorated (Binding of the time). Becker, number 138. Rare first edition in Italian, decorated with a portrait and 5 engraved and coloured plates. An ophthalmology treatise in which the author, chief doctor of the St. Petersburg Military Hospital, describes the purulent ophthalmia observed from 1835 to 1839 on several patients. The book was originally published on the Tsar's orders, in Russian, for distribution to all army physicists. Missing the picture, clear freckles. Small rubbing on the binding, lighter back.
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